Women should have kids early and fob them off onto the grandparents and the rest of the extended family so that the mother can get her education... the children would be healthier (younger mother = less chance of complications?) and cared for by people with experience...
The mother can then get into whatever field she wants... with out the pressure of needing to have a kid before it's "too late"
I think they mean if a shop orders x number of boxes but only sells 90% of them... they (the shop) return the remaining 10%... this costs money in wasted production costs, shipping costs ands so on...
Newsagents do that with newspapers and magazines here all the time... they get 100 in the morning and if they only sell 90 they cut off tops of the front pages where the barcodes are and send them back as proof of non-sale (non-sale? is that the right word...) so that they don't have to pay for the full ammount... seeing as they didn't actually sell them.
I imagine software retailers can do something similar...
Situation #4 - I refuse to sign the form. I survive the crash, and so does the commander. I get dishonorably discharged for failure to follow orders.
Do they really dishonorably discharge you for not following stupid orders? I know my uncle got away with threatening to shoot an officer after the officer gave him on a stupid pointless (basically suicidal) order... If he can get away with that I'd imagine not filling in your paper work in a timely manner while aboard a crashing plane is hardly an offense... (I would also assume that you can't/won't be dishonorably discharged for refusing to follow illegal orders...)
If someone told me to fill out the forms so that the Army would payout to my family then I might fill them in... If they told me it was so that they wouldn't be paying out to my family I would like to think that I would either A) not fill them out and laugh/scream at the officer involved B) Fill them out very badly (wrong/fake name and details) so that they would be invalid and the army would have to pay, or C) take the sheets and write a letter home on the back of them... in the hope that if I die in the crash the paper will survive and the letter might get to my loved ones.
What would be really interesting would be if you had to fill out the requisition form to get a parachute... what would happen then? I wonder how many people would fill them in correctly then?
Why would they pay google? It wasn't google's idea. From your link: The idea, Cringely explained, wasn't new and wasn't even Google's, backing up his claim with a link to an Internet-Archive-in-a-Shipping-Container presentation (PDF, dated 11-8-2003) that was reportedly pitched to Larry Page.
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They get a license to use your work as they choose, but it's non-exclusive and you retain copyright. There's nothing there which permits use of your clip by any entity other than YT (and its affiliates). It goes on to say YT users are granted a license to stream the video but only from YT themselves.
Does sublicenseable and transferable mean that they can license it to third parties?
There is quite a large difference between stating "In America we do XYZ" and "In America we do XYZ and that is the way you should do it too". It is normal for people traveling between countries to experience some culture shock. It does not mean that they do not respect your culture.
I was trying not to be too inflammatory so I wrote "that's odd" not "that's stupid".
Don't you love the (almost entirely wrong) impressions foreigners get of us?
Travel more... get on a plane, and bring some smart and sane Americans... make sure they don't start any sentences that sound like this, "That's odd... In America we don't do XYZ like that, we do ZYX"
I wrote a big rant about Americans that I've met over here... but sadly I couldn't make it non-trolly:(
But I'm not joking about the bring smart well spoken people that are able to understand that they are in a different country, with different rules, laws and cultural norms.
All you need to do is beat the tide of stereotype reinforcing Americans... there may not be that many of them but they are much more obvious than other types...
You could get the software for free... on an unlimited free trial... which supports all the same formats as the full version but adds in spelling errors... If it adds in different spelling errors each time then you could convert the file several times and compare the results to create an accurate file but would you trust it to be correct?
Or you could realise that if you have an archive of thousands of documents that you really want to be able to read you should be willing to pay for software. Yes, I know the idea of paying for things is abhorrent to many people, I, myself, hate paying for anything on the internet but if I had all my old love letters on a 3.5 floppy I'd pay the $10 dollars to read them.
Don't be silly. Plenty of people get by with out that much tech. The human race is not going to go extinct from just the loss of technology, barring massive environmental collapse in which case we would probably need our tech to survive. Plenty of people around the world get by from day to day using only the level of technology that they themselves, or rather the people in their local area, can support. Unless by extinction of the human race you meant the extinction of pampered westerners? Sure we might get knocked back to the stone age, but humanity would survive a sudden "failure" of technology. Some massive epidemic could wipe us out...but in all likelihood it wouldn't get every one... and enough isolated populations would survive.
If all High Technology failed we might lose a lot of people and the average life span might drop to 25 but people can have a lot of babies by that age...
Well... your little scooter does a lot less damage to the road than a big SUV. less damage means less repair work, which means lower costs. However if you had a SUV that used a non-standard fuel it would still cause as much damage to the road surface and so would cost the state the same amount for road repair and so on, but you would not be paying for any of the repairs/maintenance of the roads.
This argument largly falls down in the UK, where I believe they have a separate yearly road tax, the [url=http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAV ehicle/HowToTaxYourVehicle/DG_10012524] cost of vehicle tax [/url] is calculated based on a number of factors such as CO2 emmissions and engine size. So even if he was not paying fuel tax, he would have been paying road tax.
"Supreme Commander" was supposed to basically be an improved remake of TA. I guess you didn't get that memo. I'd have bought it because I knew it was going to be a new TA with shiny new models, graphics and so on... but then I found Spring and a friend of mine on the SC beta said it wasn't so great, so I just stuck with Spring.
You see what you should have done was... buy one copy of the upgrade in the shop. install it on all our friends machines and then they could have bought the account upgrade online and avoided the whole multi-gig download.
I've yet to RTFA yet but, I've one or too points to make... You're statment "Magma is usually crust material that got pushed down into hot mantle material and melted." is not entirely accurate.
In subduction zones where crustal material gets pulled down in to the mantle the melting is very often that of the mantle between the subducted and the subducting crustal slabs. The subducted slab carries a lot of water and as it heats the water is released in to the mantle, this changes the melting temperature of the mantle material and melting can occur.
In places like the Mid Ocean Ridges, where two plates are pulling apart the sudden drop in pressure over hard hot mantle allows it to partially melt, producing basalt.
Which brings me on to the gash discussed here... I'm not sure how you could expose mantle material like that with out melting some of it like at the MOR. of course if it was very cool before the gash opened then it would be below the point where the loss in pressure would allow it to melt...
Wait... did you just say that the person who earns 20,000 times as much as his average employee is a hero for only letting go 10,000 employees out of a company of 40,000 because the remaining 30,000 employees get to keep their jobs? If he was a hero he'd take a pay cut and only earn 10,000 times as much as his average employee and keep the employees and still be paid a large sum of money... Instead he fires 10,000 people and ups his pay to 25,000 times the average employee and the remaining employees should be happy to have a job, why if he hadn't fired their co-workers then the company could have folded and they'd be out of a job... and they should be happy that the fat cat got a bonus as his wonderful fire 10,000 people idea saved *their* jobs... of course he could have taken no bonus or a pay cut and just axed half as many people or even none at all, but the idea was so great and wonderful and really made the company more productive, and of course the shareholders are happy so the employees should be too... work harder! You're company didn't fire you this time, Rejoice!,
The joke isn't handing in a "blank" term paper but rather tricking someone else into doing so...
However, if you write a really crappy paper, and make a show of handing it in... have alittle chat with the prof. at the end of a lecture, asking some questions while you and others are handing in papers. He or she will remember that they saw your paper... but when they get round to marking that stack of papers wont be able to find yours... and hopefully will presume they lost it. Giving you time to write a better one. Of course this wouldn't work... because they will find a few blank pages stapled together and the only paper that will be unaccounted for will be yours...
I loved Bushido Blade, I remember playing it at a Gaming convention in UCD, using the projector in a lecture hall, the characters were huge... and we stood on top of the second or thrid row desks... because after an hour of playing sitting down your neck was really sore...
The weapons were great, at one point we picked the two weakest characters and the two heaviest hammers, after what must have been an hour long fight neither character could stand or had enough strenght to land a killing blow on the other. They just shuffeled around on their knees tring to swing a sledgehammer with one hand...
Of course the One hit kills could get a little anoying... choose the fastest sword, start match in low stance and as soon as the fight starts do a high attack... *STAB to the head* kills instantly... the only way to stop it was to do the correct block as soon as the match started... which ment you could make people think that you were going to do this but then attack low instead and cripple their legs... which gave you a huge advantage.
I played at least 12 hours of Bushido Blade over that week end... I had never played it before and I never found a copy for sale anywhere afterwards...:(
Their patent is for a part of the machine... the important part... but they can't patent the whole thing because patent offices don't allow patents for OverUnity devices... ( and rightly so)
Their Idea is to use these low energy actuators to cause a metal object to move in a circle... by unshielding a magnet, allowing a metal object to move towards the magnet... when it gets near they shut off the magnet ( by shielding it) and un shield the next magnet in the circle... and so on... the idea is that if you use less energy shielding the magnets than you get from the rotation produced then you have a net gain in energy. It has several problems though...how do you power the shields for the magnets? also where would the energy come from? They say it's free... I think they have designed a funky electric motor that they will try to connect a generator... and that not only will it not product a net gain in energy but the magnets will be demagnetised over time...
We've been talking about this in Ireland all week end... and most people think they are insane.
True, but only by the classical definition of terrorism, which someone who commits any act with the intent to cause fear in a section of the population. On the other hand, by that same standard, our own government in the U.S. is a terrorist organization. Do you honestly think that "Threat Level Red" notices to the general public serve any useful purpose other than to scare them into submission?
Ignoring the fear induced in the american people by the threat levels lets look at the meaning of 'Awe'. As in Shock and Awe. Shock could mean surprise, scare or could be used to mean to attack suddenly. Awe is where it gets fun.
from oed.com awe, n.
I. As a subjective emotion.
Immediate and active fear; terror, dread. to stand in awe of: to be greatly afraid of, to dread;
II. As an objective fact. Behaviour that inspires fear; anger, fierceness, rage. Something which inspires fear; a cause of dread; a restraint.
awe, v.
1. To inspire with dread, strike fear into, terrify, daunt; to control, constrain, or restrain, by the influence of fear.
Looks like your right... The good old USA uses terror tactics and admits it. But that's ok... state sponsored terrorism is called War.
God I hate stickykeys, filterkeys and togglekeys... well togglekeys are ok... it makes the lock keys beep when you press them... with a different noise for on and off... sometimes I try to play tunes with them. um anyway.
They keep popping up and anoying me when I'm playing games, I'm sure I've turned them off but they seem to come back, the short cuts should not be active by default... but rather should be clearly marked and easy to find in the control panel...
Filterkeys is a very anoying feature when playing a twitch game. If you hold down right shift for 8 seconds, it turns this feature on... and then the computer ignores any keypress that is not held for 1 second. try playing a twitch game like that.
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I see... so why does it still cost stupid prices in Ireland and the UK where little or no localisation needs to be carried out?
Solution... teen pregnancy.
Women should have kids early and fob them off onto the grandparents and the rest of the extended family so that the mother can get her education... the children would be healthier (younger mother = less chance of complications?) and cared for by people with experience...
The mother can then get into whatever field she wants... with out the pressure of needing to have a kid before it's "too late"
In Soviet Russia, Pawns seize Kasparov!
sigh... I had to say it
I think they mean if a shop orders x number of boxes but only sells 90% of them ... they (the shop) return the remaining 10%... this costs money in wasted production costs, shipping costs ands so on...
Newsagents do that with newspapers and magazines here all the time...
they get 100 in the morning and if they only sell 90 they cut off tops of the front pages where the barcodes are and send them back as proof of non-sale (non-sale? is that the right word...) so that they don't have to pay for the full ammount... seeing as they didn't actually sell them.
I imagine software retailers can do something similar...
Situation #4 - I refuse to sign the form. I survive the crash, and so does the commander. I get dishonorably discharged for failure to follow orders.
... in the hope that if I die in the crash the paper will survive and the letter might get to my loved ones.
Do they really dishonorably discharge you for not following stupid orders? I know my uncle got away with threatening to shoot an officer after the officer gave him on a stupid pointless (basically suicidal) order...
If he can get away with that I'd imagine not filling in your paper work in a timely manner while aboard a crashing plane is hardly an offense...
(I would also assume that you can't/won't be dishonorably discharged for refusing to follow illegal orders...)
If someone told me to fill out the forms so that the Army would payout to my family then I might fill them in...
If they told me it was so that they wouldn't be paying out to my family I would like to think that I would either A) not fill them out and laugh/scream at the officer involved B) Fill them out very badly (wrong/fake name and details) so that they would be invalid and the army would have to pay, or C) take the sheets and write a letter home on the back of them
What would be really interesting would be if you had to fill out the requisition form to get a parachute... what would happen then?
I wonder how many people would fill them in correctly then?
Why would they pay google? It wasn't google's idea.
From your link: The idea, Cringely explained, wasn't new and wasn't even Google's, backing up his claim with a link to an Internet-Archive-in-a-Shipping-Container presentation (PDF, dated 11-8-2003) that was reportedly pitched to Larry Page.
Does sublicenseable and transferable mean that they can license it to third parties?
No... that $12k is worth L$3.2 million...
w orld-stock-exchange-hit-by-l32-million-theft/
You're converting an extra time.
http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2007/07/25/
There is quite a large difference between stating "In America we do XYZ" and "In America we do XYZ and that is the way you should do it too". It is normal for people traveling between countries to experience some culture shock. It does not mean that they do not respect your culture.
I was trying not to be too inflammatory so I wrote "that's odd" not "that's stupid".
Don't you love the (almost entirely wrong) impressions foreigners get of us?
... but sadly I couldn't make it non-trolly :(
Travel more... get on a plane, and bring some smart and sane Americans...
make sure they don't start any sentences that sound like this, "That's odd... In America we don't do XYZ like that, we do ZYX"
I wrote a big rant about Americans that I've met over here
But I'm not joking about the bring smart well spoken people that are able to understand that they are in a different country, with different rules, laws and cultural norms.
All you need to do is beat the tide of stereotype reinforcing Americans... there may not be that many of them but they are much more obvious than other types...
http://www.file-convert.com/free_trial.htm
You could get the software for free... on an unlimited free trial... which supports all the same formats as the full version but adds in spelling errors...
If it adds in different spelling errors each time then you could convert the file several times and compare the results to create an accurate file but would you trust it to be correct?
Or you could realise that if you have an archive of thousands of documents that you really want to be able to read you should be willing to pay for software. Yes, I know the idea of paying for things is abhorrent to many people, I, myself, hate paying for anything on the internet but if I had all my old love letters on a 3.5 floppy I'd pay the $10 dollars to read them.
A large archive should be ok with paying a few grand for this sort of software...
http://www.file-convert.com/fmn_pric.htm
maybe they are only safe for the shooter, not the target...
Don't be silly. Plenty of people get by with out that much tech. ...but in all likelihood it wouldn't get every one... and enough isolated populations would survive.
The human race is not going to go extinct from just the loss of technology, barring massive environmental collapse in which case we would probably need our tech to survive.
Plenty of people around the world get by from day to day using only the level of technology that they themselves, or rather the people in their local area, can support.
Unless by extinction of the human race you meant the extinction of pampered westerners?
Sure we might get knocked back to the stone age, but humanity would survive a sudden "failure" of technology.
Some massive epidemic could wipe us out
If all High Technology failed we might lose a lot of people and the average life span might drop to 25 but people can have a lot of babies by that age...
No! Information wants to be liberated and expensive.
sigh... should have previewed :-(
Well... your little scooter does a lot less damage to the road than a big SUV.
V ehicle/HowToTaxYourVehicle/DG_10012524] cost of vehicle tax [/url] is calculated based on a number of factors such as CO2 emmissions and engine size. So even if he was not paying fuel tax, he would have been paying road tax.
less damage means less repair work, which means lower costs.
However if you had a SUV that used a non-standard fuel it would still cause as much damage to the road surface and so would cost the state the same amount for road repair and so on, but you would not be paying for any of the repairs/maintenance of the roads.
This argument largly falls down in the UK, where I believe they have a separate yearly road tax, the [url=http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningA
"Supreme Commander" was supposed to basically be an improved remake of TA.
I guess you didn't get that memo.
I'd have bought it because I knew it was going to be a new TA with shiny new models, graphics and so on... but then I found Spring and a friend of mine on the SC beta said it wasn't so great, so I just stuck with Spring.
You see what you should have done was... buy one copy of the upgrade in the shop. install it on all our friends machines and then they could have bought the account upgrade online and avoided the whole multi-gig download.
I've yet to RTFA yet but, I've one or too points to make...
You're statment "Magma is usually crust material that got pushed down into hot mantle material and melted." is not entirely accurate.
In subduction zones where crustal material gets pulled down in to the mantle the melting is very often that of the mantle between the subducted and the subducting crustal slabs. The subducted slab carries a lot of water and as it heats the water is released in to the mantle, this changes the melting temperature of the mantle material and melting can occur.
In places like the Mid Ocean Ridges, where two plates are pulling apart the sudden drop in pressure over hard hot mantle allows it to partially melt, producing basalt.
Which brings me on to the gash discussed here... I'm not sure how you could expose mantle material like that with out melting some of it like at the MOR. of course if it was very cool before the gash opened then it would be below the point where the loss in pressure would allow it to melt...
Wait... did you just say that the person who earns 20,000 times as much as his average employee is a hero for only letting go 10,000 employees out of a company of 40,000 because the remaining 30,000 employees get to keep their jobs?
If he was a hero he'd take a pay cut and only earn 10,000 times as much as his average employee and keep the employees and still be paid a large sum of money...
Instead he fires 10,000 people and ups his pay to 25,000 times the average employee and the remaining employees should be happy to have a job, why if he hadn't fired their co-workers then the company could have folded and they'd be out of a job... and they should be happy that the fat cat got a bonus as his wonderful fire 10,000 people idea saved *their* jobs... of course he could have taken no bonus or a pay cut and just axed half as many people or even none at all, but the idea was so great and wonderful and really made the company more productive, and of course the shareholders are happy so the employees should be too... work harder!
You're company didn't fire you this time, Rejoice!,
The joke isn't handing in a "blank" term paper but rather tricking someone else into doing so...
However, if you write a really crappy paper, and make a show of handing it in... have alittle chat with the prof. at the end of a lecture, asking some questions while you and others are handing in papers. He or she will remember that they saw your paper... but when they get round to marking that stack of papers wont be able to find yours... and hopefully will presume they lost it.
Giving you time to write a better one.
Of course this wouldn't work... because they will find a few blank pages stapled together and the only paper that will be unaccounted for will be yours...
I loved Bushido Blade, I remember playing it at a Gaming convention in UCD, using the projector in a lecture hall, the characters were huge... and we stood on top of the second or thrid row desks... because after an hour of playing sitting down your neck was really sore...
... choose the fastest sword, start match in low stance and as soon as the fight starts do a high attack... *STAB to the head* kills instantly ... the only way to stop it was to do the correct block as soon as the match started ... which ment you could make people think that you were going to do this but then attack low instead and cripple their legs... which gave you a huge advantage.
:(
The weapons were great, at one point we picked the two weakest characters and the two heaviest hammers, after what must have been an hour long fight neither character could stand or had enough strenght to land a killing blow on the other.
They just shuffeled around on their knees tring to swing a sledgehammer with one hand...
Of course the One hit kills could get a little anoying
I played at least 12 hours of Bushido Blade over that week end... I had never played it before and I never found a copy for sale anywhere afterwards...
Their patent is for a part of the machine ... the important part ... but they can't patent the whole thing because patent offices don't allow patents for OverUnity devices... ( and rightly so)
... by unshielding a magnet, allowing a metal object to move towards the magnet... when it gets near they shut off the magnet ( by shielding it) and un shield the next magnet in the circle... and so on ... the idea is that if you use less energy shielding the magnets than you get from the rotation produced then you have a net gain in energy.
... and most people think they are insane.
Their Idea is to use these low energy actuators to cause a metal object to move in a circle
It has several problems though...how do you power the shields for the magnets?
also where would the energy come from?
They say it's free...
I think they have designed a funky electric motor that they will try to connect a generator... and that not only will it not product a net gain in energy but the magnets will be demagnetised over time...
We've been talking about this in Ireland all week end
Ignoring the fear induced in the american people by the threat levels lets look at the meaning of 'Awe'. As in Shock and Awe. Shock could mean surprise, scare or could be used to mean to attack suddenly. Awe is where it gets fun.
from oed.com
awe, n.
I. As a subjective emotion.
Immediate and active fear; terror, dread.
to stand in awe of: to be greatly afraid of, to dread;
II. As an objective fact.
Behaviour that inspires fear; anger, fierceness, rage.
Something which inspires fear; a cause of dread; a restraint.
awe, v.
1. To inspire with dread, strike fear into, terrify, daunt; to control, constrain, or restrain, by the influence of fear.
Looks like your right... The good old USA uses terror tactics and admits it.
But that's ok... state sponsored terrorism is called War.
God I hate stickykeys, filterkeys and togglekeys... well togglekeys are ok ... it makes the lock keys beep when you press them... with a different noise for on and off... sometimes I try to play tunes with them. um anyway.
... but rather should be clearly marked and easy to find in the control panel...
They keep popping up and anoying me when I'm playing games, I'm sure I've turned them off but they seem to come back, the short cuts should not be active by default
Filterkeys is a very anoying feature when playing a twitch game. If you hold down right shift for 8 seconds, it turns this feature on... and then the computer ignores any keypress that is not held for 1 second.
try playing a twitch game like that.